A mum has spoken out after she and her family were followed from one shopping area to another by a man who stared at her daughter.

Lauren, 23, was out with her partner and their 14-month-old daughter Evie at Kingston Retail Park on Tuesday when things started to get sinister.

While in Mothercare, the family noticed a man walk in just before them. A short while later Miss Clark noticed the man staring at her daughter. She said: “He just started to stare at my little girl. It was the way he was looking at her that concerned me.

“I looked at him and then stared at me and it was all a bit freaky. We walked past and he was still staring.”

But while the encounter was a little unsettling, Lauren did not think anything more about it.

The family decided to drive to St Stephen’s shopping centre for a bite to eat when things took an even more sinister turn. Lauren, of east Hull, said: “We had a look in one shop and then went to Burger King.

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“A couple of people told me I should have confronted him but I don’t know what he is capable of. He may have had a weapon for all I knew and we wanted to keep Evie safe.

“Again, people asked why I didn’t take a photo of him but, again, I wasn’t’ go to get my phone out over protecting my child.”

Lauren admits no crime has actually taken place but believes there was nothing innocent about the situation. She said: “I 100 per cent believe it was no coincidence that we saw him at Kingston Retail Park and then St Stephen’s.

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A spokeswoman for Humberside Police said: “We received a call at 8.40pm reporting that a woman was concerned about an incident that was alleged to have happened at Kingston Retail Park and again at St Stephen’s at around 2pm on Tuesday 7 May.

“Although no offences have been identified our call handler provided the woman with safety advice and thanked her for reporting the suspicious activity.”

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